Magistr virus toughened by major recode

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[London | Newsbytes, 6 September 2001] - The Magistr virus, which has been riding high in the virus reports charts for several months, is making the rounds with a meaner variant.

Thanks to a substantial recode by persons unknown, the virus is now hitting PC users where it hurts most - on their hard drives.

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Vigilinx says the new variant of Magistr also disables ZoneAlarm, the popular "personal firewall" package used by large numbers of Internet users.

Perhaps worse, Magistr-b also destroys all files with ".ntz" extensions. These are files that are used by various anti-virus packages.

Vigilinx says that the latest virus definition from Symantec to detect W32.Magistr.39921@mm (Magistr-b) is now available from http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/defs.download.html.

Updates are also available from F-Secure (http://www.f-secure.com ) and Kaspersky Labs (http://www.kaspersky.com ).

Panda's Web site is at http://www.pandasecurity.com.
Vigilinx's Web site is at http://www.vigilinx.com.
Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com.

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